Demolition Zone

While we were in South Carolina for the wedding, our house was a demolition zone.   If you live in Mississippi you know where I am going with this... foundation work.  It just seems to go with home ownership when you live in this area of Mississippi where the Yazoo clay runs.  Eventually, you are going to have to do some sort of foundation work.    Of course, if you are me then you are going to have to do a LOT of foundation work.   The kind that requires you to pack your entire house and move out.  With one end of our house six inches lower than the other we didn't have any other choice.   We had to rip up all of our floors so they could dig giant holes inside and make it look like this...



























































I don't mind telling you that when my husband started texting me pictures of my house piled up with dirt, I was really glad that I was a LONG way from home.    Two weeks of them digging 20 feet holes into the ground was a messy and loud project.   Well, I am guessing it was loud since one of our neighbors called the police on our foundation workers complaining about the noise.   Fortunately, the police told them that we had all of our permits and permissions from the city so they were just going to have to deal with the noise since it was being done during work hours.   When this is over I will bake them a cake if I can ever find my kitchen again!!

The "lifting" process brought a lot of unexpected surprises.   Our roof buckled.  Our french doors collapsed.   Our skylight in the bathroom separated so when it rained it flooded the bathroom and it has to be completely repaired.     I am starting to feel like I need to tiptoe or something else is going to fall apart!

I will say that our foundation company did a great job with their clean up as they went.  You could never tell there were four foot piles of dirt in the house.  












These are not even the finished pictures.   I can't find the final pictures, but obviously concrete was poured over the dirt.   Now we wait for a minimum of two months for everything to "settle" before we can put floors back down or start to pain.  

The positive side.... when you have concrete floors and only have your beds set up and a couch in the living room there is very little to clean! 

So Happy Together

My nephew married his dream girl this past weekend.   It was a beautiful wedding although the weather did not exactly match.   If rain can be considered a blessing, then their wedding day was VERY blessed as it rained buckets and buckets the entire day.    J and J planned an outdoor wedding and they had a tent on stand by in case of rain.   We hated they had to use it, but there was no choice.    As you can see from the photos below, they were so happy they did not care about the rain.  They only cared about their special day.

My SIL did an amazing job planning a majority of the decorations.   Everything was so gorgeous!    She is really so gracious and volunteered to help the bride's family do so much.   I hope one day they will truly appreciate all she did to lighten their load.  

The wedding was held at the Bleckley Inn in Anderson, South Carolina.   It is a beautiful venue and the staff there is amazing.  I highly recommend you staying there is you are ever in the area.   The rooms are luxurious and they have thought of everything you could ever want in a guest room.   

Congratulations, J and J!   Your wedding day was beautiful.  We hope you have a wonderful life together.   Hope you are having an amazing honeymoon in Jamaica!